Line RodeDepartment of Fetal Medicine and Ultrasound 4002, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen, DenmarkObstet Gynecol 120:60-8. 2012

..Our objective was to investigate the relationship between prepregnancy and obstetric body mass index (BMI) as well as fetal complications in a large, unselected cohort of Danish women with single cephalic pregnancies...

Prevention of preterm delivery in twin gestations (PREDICT): a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial on the effect of vaginal micronized progesterone

..Health personnel face a challenge in prenatal counseling as 40-60% of these women gain more weight than recommended for their BMI. As GWG is potentially modifiable, our study should be followed by intervention studies focusing on GW...

..8 kg/m(2)), normal weight (BMI 19.8-26.0 kg/m(2)), overweight (BMI 26.1-29.0 kg/m(2)), and obese (BMI greater than 29.0 kg/m(2)) women, with emphasis on the use of the American Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations in Denmark...

Acute recurrent polyhydramnios: a combination of amniocenteses and NSAID may be curative rather than palliative

..As in normal pregnancies, amniotic prolactin levels decreased by 80% from highest to lowest value in this case of resolving acute recurrent polyhydramnios...

Cytokines and the risk of preterm delivery in twin pregnancies

Line RodeDepartment of Fetal Medicine and Ultrasound 4002, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen, DenmarkObstet Gynecol 120:60-8. 2012

..To estimate the association between cytokine levels in twin pregnancies and risk of spontaneous preterm delivery, including the effect of progesterone treatment...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of polyhydramnios, the related maternal and perinatal morbidity, and to estimate the association between perinatal outcome and the degree of polyhydramnios in a Danish population...

Systematic review of progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth in singleton pregnancies

Line RodeDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry and the Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, DK 2730 Herlev, Denmark and Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK 2200 Copenhagen, DenmarkJ Clin Endocrinol Metab 99:E1671-5. 2014

..Obesity is associated with short telomere length. The cause of this association is unknown...

High tobacco consumption is causally associated with increased all-cause mortality in a general population sample of 55,568 individuals, but not with short telomeres: a Mendelian randomization study

Line RodeDepartment of Clinical Biochemistry and the Copenhagen General Population Study, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark and Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkInt J Epidemiol 43:1473-83. 2014

..We tested the hypothesis that high tobacco consumption is causally associated with short telomeres and with increased all-cause mortality...

..This study investigated the gender distribution in karyotype results from chorionic villus samples and amniocenteses performed due to an increased risk for Down syndrome based on first-trimester combined risk assessment...

..Therefore, it is mandatory to evaluate the proposed treatments in randomised trials of multiple gestations. In this chapter, we describe the results of trials to prevent preterm delivery in twin pregnancies. ..

..Pimozide is an antidopaminergic, antipsychotic drug. Exposure during human pregnancy has not been reported previously, and recommendations on its use are based on extrapolation from other antipsychotics with antidopaminergic activity...